Payment schedules

A payment schedule splits an invoice into dated installments, like a deposit up front and the balance on completion. Each installment has its own amount and due date, and your client pays them through the portal as they come due.

By default an invoice has a single installment called Full Payment for the whole total. If the whole amount is due at once, you never need to touch the schedule.

The invoice's own due date is the last installment's date. Move that installment and the invoice's deadline moves with it.

1. Open the invoice and go to the Payment Schedule tab.
2. Click Configure.
3. Add an installment for each payment you expect. Give each one an amount, a due date, and a description if it helps.
4. Adjust the amounts until the installments add up exactly to the invoice total, not a cent over or under.
5. Click Save schedule. For an invoice governed by recurring terms, choose This invoice or This and future invoices. A future change opens a reusable percentage or fixed amount rule and prepares agreement revisions for customer approval.

The Payment Schedule tab shows every installment as a card with a status pill: Pending, Sent, Paid, Overdue, or Cancelled. A disputed installment also carries a note with Stripe's evidence deadline. Your client sees the schedule on the invoice in their portal and pays the installments in order, and a partly paid invoice shows there as partial until the last installment settles.